Theoretical Concepts and Computational Methods in Metabolomics

Metabolomics has become a central element of systems biology research. It ultimately aims at detecting, identifying, quantifying and interpreting the occurrence and the abundance of metabolites in context of organisms’ biology. For this, various highly sophisticated experimental and theoretical approaches have been developed. Integrating different analytical techniques, for example LC-MS, GC-MS, CE-MS or H-NMR, has proven to yield a comprehensive - although not yet complete - overview of organisms’ metabolomes. Thousands of metabolic features have become experimentally accessible. Finally, this results in numerous multidimensional data arrays which need to be functionally interpreted.

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